1959.51.3: Historiated Initial S
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1959.51.3
- People
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Historiated Initial S
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1720-1730
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292471
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 4.3 x 4 cm (1 11/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper left: 17
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Walter Schatzki, New York, NY, sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1959. Sold as Venetian, 18th century, for $90.00.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William C. Heilman Fund and Gifts for Special Uses Fund
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- 1959.51.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- George Knox, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970; Drawings, Mainly from American Collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the Members of His Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), copyright page (n.p.)
- Filippo Pedrocco, "Giambattista Tiepolo illustratore di libro", Giambattista Tiepolo: il segno e l'enigma, ed. Dario Succi, Vianello Libri/Foligraf (Venice, Italy, 1985), pp. 64-76, p. 65
- Bernard Aikema, "Early Drawings for Prints by Giambattista Tiepolo", Master Drawings (1998), vol. XXXVI, no. 3, pp. 251-274, p. 253 and cat. no. 67, p. 273
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